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HMI: Matters for Discussion 1 Ten Good Schools
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Matters for Discussion (1977-82) HMI Series London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1977-82
Notes on the text
Twelve of the booklets in the series are presented here, each in a single web page. Links are provided to the main section headings so you can either scroll through a whole document or go straight to a particular section. The booklets all had similar covers (number 4 is shown here), though they were not all the same colour. They frequently refer to the years of compulsory schooling in secondary school as years 1 to 5. Since the introduction of the National Curriculum these have been designated Years 6 to 10. The formatting of the text (bold, italics, centred etc) is a reasonably accurate representation of the printed version. However, please note that the pages presented here are not exact facsimiles of the original printed version: the font (Times, Arial etc) and size of print - and therefore the number of words to a line and lines to a page - are determined by the settings you have chosen for your web browser. Section headings and footnotes were printed in the margin: I have moved the headings into the main body of the text and the footnotes to their usual position at the bottom of each page. Blank pages have been omitted. Most of the booklets contained a few printing errors: I have corrected those I (or my spell-checker!) spotted. Can you help? I have been unable to find three of the books in this series (numbers 10, 12 and 15) - even the Bodleian doesn't appear to have them. If you have copies of any of them which you would be willing to lend me, I'd be very grateful. Contact details are here. 
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Matters for Discussion was a series of 15 booklets published by HMI between 1977 and 1982. They were part of the 'Great Debate' about the nature and purpose of education begun by Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in his 1976 